Today, Thursday, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) revealed the lists of nominees for the Best in the World Awards for the year 2023.
FIFA opened nominations for the fans to vote in choosing the winners of the awards for best player, best female player, best men’s coach, best women’s football coach, best goalkeeper, best female goalkeeper, and the fans’ award.
The winner is chosen based on a voting process in which coaches and team leaders participate, along with fans and a selected group of journalists.
List of nominees for The Best FIFA Player Award 🔥
Vote for your favorite player 👇
– FIFA World Cup 🏆 (@fifaworldcup_ar) September 14, 2023
The evaluation period includes the period between December 19, 2022 and August 20, 2023, meaning that performance during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was not taken into account.
As for the women’s categories, votes were taken on what the competitors submitted between August 1, 2022 and August 20, 2023, which is the day that witnessed the Women’s World Cup final between Spain and England.
The list of candidates for the Best Player Award included 6 from English Manchester City out of 12 candidates, in addition to the Spanish City coach Pep Guardiola, who is nominated for the Best Coach in the World award. As for women’s football coaches, the list included Emma Hayes and Sarina Wegman.
List of nominees for the Best Player Award
- Argentine Julian Alvarez (Manchester City)
- Croatian Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan – Al-Nasr)
- Belgian Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City)
- German Ilkay Gundogan (Manchester City – Barcelona)
- Norwegian Erling Haaland (Manchester City)
- Spanish Rodrigo Hernandez “Rodri” (Manchester City)
- Georgian Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Naples)
- Frenchman Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain)
- Argentine Lionel Messi (Paris Saint-Germain – Inter Miami)
- Nigerian Victor Osimhen (Napoli)
- England’s Declan Rice (West Ham United – Arsenal)
- Portuguese Bernardo Silva (Manchester City)
List of nominees for the Best Men’s Coach Award
- Spanish Pep Guardiola (Manchester City)
- Italian Simone Inzaghi (Inter Milan)
- Australian Ange Postecoglou (Celtic – Tottenham Hotspur)
- Italian Luciano Spalletti (Napoli – Italy national team)
- Spanish Xavi Hernandez (Barcelona)
List of nominees for the Best Goalkeeper Award
Candidates for the Best Goalkeeper Award in the Awards #TheBest 🏆🧤
🇲🇦 Yassin Bono
🇧🇪 Thibaut Courtois
🇧🇷 Ederson
🇨🇲 Andre Onana
🇩🇪 Marc-Andre ter StegenVote for your favorite player 👇
– FIFA World Cup 🏆 (@fifaworldcup_ar) September 14, 2023
- Moroccan Yacine Bounou (Seville – Al Hilal)
- Belgian Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid)
- Brazilian Ederson (Manchester City)
- Cameroonian Andre Onana (Inter Milan – Manchester United)
- German Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona)
List of nominees for the Best Player Award
- Spanish Aitana Bonmatti (Barcelona)
- Colombian Linda Caicedo (Real Madrid)
- English Rachel Daly (Aston Villa)
- Frenchman Cadiano Diani (Olympique Lyonnais)
- Australian Caitlin Ford (Arsenal)
- Australian Mary Fuller (Manchester City)
- English Alex Greenwood (Manchester City)
- Spanish Jennifer Hermoso (Pachuca)
- American Lindsay Horan (Olympique Lyonnais)
- Swedish Amanda Elstedt (Arsenal)
- English Lauren James (Chelsea)
- Australian Sam Kerr (Chelsea)
- Spanish Maby Leon (Barcelona)
- Japanese Hinata Miyazawa (Manchester United)
- Spanish Salma Baralloelo (Barcelona)
- English Keira Walsh (Barcelona)
List of candidates for the Best Coach Award for a Women’s Team
- Swedish Peter Gerhardsson (coach of the Swedish women’s national team)
- Spaniard Jonathan Giraldes (Barcelona Women’s Team Coach)
- Swedish Toni Gustafsson (coach of the Australian women’s national team)
- English Emma Hayes (Chelsea Women’s coach)
- Dutch Sarina Wichman (England Women’s National Team Coach)
List of nominees for the Best Female Goalkeeper Award
- Australian Mackenzie Arnold (West Ham United)
- German Anne-Katrin Berger (Chelsea)
- Spanish Kata Cole (Barcelona)
- English Mary Earps (Manchester United)
- Chilean Christian Endler (Olympique Lyonnais)
- Swedish Sasira Musojevic (Chelsea)
- Spanish Sandra Banos (Barcelona)
